“Bullsh*t”: Vance Slams Microsoft For Firing Americans While Applying For H-1B Visas

Vice President JD Vance unleashed a fiery takedown of Corporate America’s relentless outsourcing of U.S. jobs, zeroing in on Big Tech’s shameless dependence on foreign workers through the grossly misused H-1B visa program, slamming it as a betrayal of American workers.

“You see some big tech companies where they’ll lay off 9,000 workers, and then they’ll apply for a bunch of overseas visas. And I sort of wonder; that doesn’t totally make sense to me,” Vance said during an interview at the All-In AI Policy Summit in Washington, DC.

VP Vance goes after Microsoft for firing Americans while still applying for H-1B visas: “That math worries me. I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then go and say they can’t find workers here in America. That’s a bulls*** story.” pic.twitter.com/OURcQzRpbW

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The vice president continued: “That displacement and that math worries me a bit. And what the president has said, he said very clearly: We want the very best and the brightest to make America their home. We want them to build great companies and so forth. But I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say, ‘We can’t find workers here in America.’ That’s a bullshit story.”

Newsweek reports:

Microsoft is facing mounting scrutiny over its use of the H-1B visa program after announcing a wave of layoffs in July that will impact approximately 9,000 employees globally.The latest cuts, affecting about 4 percent of the company’s total workforce, follow two earlier rounds in May and June, which together eliminated around 8,000 positions. In total, Microsoft has